Philip Greven

Philip J. Greven, Jr. was a historian and history professor at Rutgers University. His scholarship examined American religious history, family life, authority, and the treatment of children.

He is the author of The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America (1977) and Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse (1991), a study of the religious and cultural foundations of corporal punishment in the United States.